Generating English paraphrases from relational query expressions

Lowden, Barry G. T.; Roeck, Anne De

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“…Similar paraphrasing modules are used in several other NLIDBS. De Roeck and and Lowden and De Roeck (1986) describe how the paraphrasing module of a particular NLIDB works.…”

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Natural language interfaces to databases – an introduction

1995

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This paper is an introduction to natural language interfaces to databases (Nlidbs). A brief overview of the history of Nlidbs is first given. Some advantages and disadvantages of Nlidbs are then discussed, comparing Nlidbs to formal query languages, form-based interfaces, and graphical interfaces. An introduction to some of the linguistic problems Nlidbs have to confront follows, for the benefit of readers less familiar with computational linguistics. The discussion then moves on to Nlidb architectures, portability issues, restricted natural language input systems (including menu-based Nlidbs), and Nlidbs with reasoning capabilities. Some less explored areas of Nlidb research are then presented, namely database updates, meta-knowledge questions, temporal questions, and multi-modal Nlidbs. The paper ends with reflections on the current state of the art.

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“…Similar paraphrasing modules are used in several other NLIDBS. De Roeck and and Lowden and De Roeck (1986) describe how the paraphrasing module of a particular NLIDB works.…”

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confidence: 99%

Natural language interfaces to databases – an introduction

1995

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“…3. Since its only strategy involved complex noun phrases, if there were no I complex noun phrases in the query, it would be "paraphrased" exactly as the In addition to being useful in current interactive original, natural language interfaces, the paraphrase task provides an excellent context to explore interesting Lowden and de Roeck (1985) also address the issues in both natural language understanding and problem of paraphrasing in the context of data base generation as well as paraphrasing itself. In the next query.…”

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Research and Development in Natural Language Understanding as Part of the Strategic Computing Program

Ayuso¹,

Bates²,

Bobrow³

et al. 1988

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“…4 A related problem is that its notion of given and new was very simplistic: it is purely based on syntactic criteria of the incoming sentenceand does not consider other criteria such as definiteness or context. Lowden and de Roeck (1985) also adch'ess the problem of paraphrasing in the context of data base query. However, while they assume some parse of a qumy has.…”

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Strategies for effective paraphrasing

Meteer¹,

Shaked²

1988

Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Computational Linguistics -

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AB S'll'RAC'I' in this paper we present a new dimension to paraphrasing text in which characteristics of the original text motivate strategies for effective pacaphrasing. Our system combines two existing robust components: the IRIJS-.II natural language underst~mding system and the SPOKESMAN generation system. We describe the architectur(: of the system and enhancements made to these components to facilitate paraphrasing. We particularly look at how levels of representation in these two systems are used by specialists in the paraphraser which define potential problems and paraphrasing strategies. Finally, we look at the role of paraphrasing in a cooperative dialog system. We will focus here on paraphrasing in the coutext of natural language interfaces and particularly on how multiple int::rpretations introduced by various kinds of ambiguity can be contrasted in paraphrases using both sentence structure and highlighting and folmating the text itself.

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Generating English paraphrases from relational query expressions

Cited by 4 publications

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Natural language interfaces to databases – an introduction

Natural language interfaces to databases – an introduction

Research and Development in Natural Language Understanding as Part of the Strategic Computing Program

Strategies for effective paraphrasing

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